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Stamina is the fuel. Rest gives it back. Recovery trades one resource for another.

Stamina

What It Is

Everyone has stamina. It fuels special abilities and prevents disruption.

Pool Calculation:

7 base + alternating increments of +3/+4 per level

Stamina by Level:

  • Level 1: 7 stamina
  • Level 2: 10 stamina (+3)
  • Level 3: 14 stamina (+4)
  • Level 4: 17 stamina (+3)
  • Level 5: 21 stamina (+4)
  • Level 6: 24 stamina (+3)
  • Level 7: 28 stamina (+4)
  • Level 8: 31 stamina (+3)
  • Level 9: 35 stamina (+4)
  • Level 10: 38 stamina (+3)

Spending Stamina

Primary Uses:

  • Buyout failed checks: When you fail a check outside combat, spend stamina equal to tier to succeed anyway
  • Maintain disrupted Declared Maneuvers: When you fail a disruption check, spend stamina equal to the tier to keep it
  • Fuel abilities: Some abilities cost stamina to activate
  • Boost abilities: Some abilities allow stamina spending for extra effects

Rolling 1s on Checks:

  • Each 1 rolled costs 1 stamina (but grants 1 Fate point)
  • GM may replace stamina cost with narrative consequence

When You're at 0 Stamina

You can still use abilities. However:

On a failed check:

  • Normal: Spend stamina to succeed
  • At 0 stamina: Failure causes exhaustion instead, even if you would have spent more stamina than you have.
  • At 0 stamina with exhaustion: Failure costs 1 Vitality per 2 stamina you would have spent (round up).

Exhaustion Effects:

  • Roll all checks, attack rolls, tests, and saves at disadvantage

Recovering from Exhaustion:

  • Rest: Removes exhaustion

Critical: Stamina does NOT recover from Recoveries beyond the Fate exchange below. Only rests restore stamina freely.

Rest & Recovery

Rest (8 hours)

Requires:

  • 8 hours of rest
  • 1 ration consumed
  • Relatively safe location

Benefits:

  • Restore ALL Vitality (wounds - lasting injuries - persist; see their Treatment)
  • Restore Stamina equal to your level
  • Remove exhaustion
  • Remove non-permanent conditions

Recovery (10 minutes)

Spend resources to patch up:

  • 1 Fate: Recover Stamina equal to your Tier
  • 2 Stamina: Restore 1 Vitality
  • 1 Stamina: Reduce Attunement by 1 (Druid)

Vigor refills automatically at the start of each combat.

Field Care

There is no dying state to rescue someone from: a character with no wound left to spend is dead. Field care is therefore about buying back capacity and pools before the killing blow, not about reviving the fallen.

Treating a wound: Each injury table lists a Treatment. Meeting it clears that injury, which gives back a wound slot. A cleared slot is another Second Wind the character can spend.

With the Healing skill tree:

  • Advantage on Treatment checks
  • Can treat at range with proper tools

Magical healing: Restores Vitality or Vigor. Wound-removal magic clears an injury outright, giving back a slot.

A Rest restores Vitality and Stamina in full. Wounds persist: they heal only via their Treatment column or wound-removal magic.